Corridor of Fame star and promotional color-commenator, Daniel Cormier has urged Michael Chandler to maneuver on from a failed UFC 303 combat with Conor McGregor this month – claiming he expects the Dubliner to now retire definitively from blended martial arts.
McGregor, a former undisputed light-weight and featherweight champion beneath the banner of the promotion, has been sidelined for the final three years – after fracturing his left tibia and fibula in a primary spherical physician’s stoppage TKO loss to common-foe, Dustin Poirier.
And now forced from a UFC 303 return during International Fight Week later this month, McGregor has been struck with an undisclosed harm – and while it has been described as not “extreme”, the veteran continues to be anticipated to be out of motion for not less than two months.
Seeing himself scratched from the UFC 303 headliner because of this, Chandler will watch on as undisputed gentle heavyweight kingpin, Alex Pereira drafts into a main event fight on just two weeks notice – in a rematch towards former champion, Jiri Prochazka.
Michael Chandler urged to maneuver on from Conor McGregor combat
With hypothesis rife relating to the quick preventing way forward for McGregor – whom UFC CEO, Dana White elected against discussing in the aftermath of his exit from the pay-per-view card, Chandler has been urged to chase different fights by Cormier, as a way to snap his nearly two-year hiatus.
“He’s (Michael Chandler) bought some issues to weigh going ahead as a result of I don’t know that he ought to wait anymore,” Daniel Cormier stated on his YouTube channel. “I feel it’s time to maneuver off of this, and I consider that the overwhelming sentiment is that [Conor McGregor] is finished.”
“I believed Conor McGregor was going to come back again as a result of to me, Conor McGregor’s a fighter,” Cormier defined. “I do know, skill-for-skill, the Conor McGregor of 2015 isn’t the identical man. However I believed that the star was nonetheless the identical. I simply don’t know that he desires to combat. Particularly proper now.”
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